I love how things, especially ideas can join up.

I’m reading Now, Discover your Strengths(NDYS) by Marcus Buckingham. (After a less than subtle hint Owl was gracious enough to give us a copy for Christmas). I’m also gradually working through Getting Things Done (GTD), a self-help book by David Allen promising to guide us to ‘Stress-free Productivity’ with Je’anna. After our daily check-in time with each other once the little one is down, we typically cover a couple of pages every evening. Me reading the text out loud and Je’anna providing critical yet objective running commentary. Continue reading →

Yup, it’s comming…

“It has news hooks and high eye-catching effects. It can be utilized to play active part for many occasions”… what on earth are ‘news hooks’, looks? Continue reading →

Coffee-Shop Schmuck, Roy Bloementhal soptlights gapingvoid in a virtual-surf-report (as heard on SA-FM), I’d like to highlight gapingvoid: how to be creative

29. Whatever choice you make, The Devil gets his due eventually.

Selling out to Hollywood comes with a price. So does not selling out. Either way, you pay in full, and yes, it invariably hurts like hell.

Bloody good point…

What’s to stop an online mass of anonymous but connected people from suddenly turning into a mean mob, just like masses of people have time and time again in the history of every human culture? It’s amazing that details in the design of online software can bring out such varied potentials in human behavior. It’s time to think about that power on a moral basis.

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Noticed this while downloading some whitepapers from ZD-net, one of the most entertaining if also most superficial reviews of 2006 I’ve seen.

Looking back at Web 2006 from 2025 by ZDNet‘s Dan Farber — Looking back from 2025, the year 2006 will be remembered for the “You,” the solipsistic Time Magazine Person of the Year selection. The image of the “me’s” and collective “you’s” locked into their computing devices, sloshing around in the primordial Internet social soup, increasingly connected, virtualized, overextended and tracked. [...]

Sleep seems to have escaped me for the moment so I thought I’d pop ’round here and upload a few pic from the last day or three. It’s not insomnia or any such drama – just that in my experience there is a tiny little critical phase of the falling asleep process which, when screwed with turns around and bites you in the ass. Just as my synapses were authenticating connections and protocols into dream space… Béo woke up, Je’anna went and fetched him ( he spends the second half of his nights in our bed) but I had to get up to sort out the bedroom door which had jammed. And that – as they apparently say in the classics – was that.

So, on with the photo’s…

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So here is a first rough go at a logo for the new, ‘New Marketing’ podcast ‘Amplitude‘ by South Africans Mark Stopforth & Dave Duarte, for South Africans. (Oh dear, there goes my bandwidth :-) ).

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By way of saying merry Xmas, to you specifically, yours, and the world at large…
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